[NU Sports] NU-HH

[Mike Nolan]

> According to the NU SID office there is no TV anywhere.

I have my suspicion that is going to happen more than once this season,
as I think the Big 10 is trying to build up demand for their OPPV channel(s)
next season.   It sucks, and I (sort of) hope it backfires.  (I already
think the move to a 12 game season has lowered the quality of the 
non-conference opponents for well over half of the teams in 1-A.)

The decision to put the Miami game on ESPNU, which, like many cable 
systems, my cable system doesn't carry, sucked too.

It would not surprise me if it turns out I'll be able to watch more Boise 
State games than Northwestern games this season.  Nebraska's game against
Nowhere State, oops, I mean Nicholls State, isn't on TV this weekend, either,
not even on OPPV (overpriced pay per view). 

I used to be an active Cubs fan, too.  Now it seems like less than half the 
games are on WGN and none of them are on the Internet, and I doubt I've 
watched more than 2 or 3 games all season, helped in part by my having been
on the road for about 5 weeks since the season opened.  I doubt I could 
name more than 2 or 3 players on the team roster today.  And for the first
time in many years I didn't bother to watch the All Star Game.  Who won?
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Mike Nolan